Stocks soar to record highs as an armed insurrection invades Capitol Hill and millions of Americans remain susceptible to the worst pandemic in a century. How? How is this possible? Josh’s guest is Allison Schrager, an economist, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, contributing editor at City Journal, co-founder of LifeCycle Finance Partners, LLC and […]
This will probably go on forever.
It’s hard to imagine what might stop this from continuing on into infinity. Why couldn’t Bitcoin double every month? Why couldn’t Tesla become so large that it overtakes the earth’s financial resources and then begins raising capital from new shareholders who are living in other solar systems around the Milky Way? I know of no […]
Old School Karate
Just started Cobra Kai season one on Netflix. How come none of you people told me about this? It’s amazing. Anyway, Johnny beats up a bunch of bullies and the kid he saved in the process is like “Whoa mister, was that jiu jitsu or MMA or something.” He’s like, “No, just old school karate.” […]
Bubbles Always Burst in January?
[embedded content] Subscribe! Join Downtown Josh Brown and Michael Batnick for another round of What Are Your Thoughts? On this week’s episode, Josh and Michael discuss the biggest topics in investing and finance, including: ►Bitcoin Breaks $30,000 – There’s nothing stopping this from getting completely out of hand. Certainly not “valuation” lol. ►Foreigners are dumping […]
promises
We’re starting the new year with a new stimulus to support people in the middle or lower range of the income scale. People who earn only what they can produce with their labor each day. People who don’t have seven-figure retirement account balances or YOLO trades on in the cloud software stocks. It’s not only […]
Have Some Fun in ’21
This week on The Compound Show – getting ready for 2021! Josh talks to Doug Boneparth of Bone Fide Wealth about surviving and thriving in the coming year. Financial advisor use of technology exploded this past year and now there’s a significant increase in adoption, comfort and expectations on the part of their clients. Better […]
Happy New Year, don’t die
It could always be worse. This is one of those things people often say to make themselves or others feel better. It’s a conversation ender. Stops you in your tracks if you’re whining about some thing or other. Only takes you a second to realize they’re right. What the hell are you complaining about, did […]
How to Avoid Bear Markets 🎧
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Talk Less, Listen More
I spent a whole bunch of time this fall and winter taking calls from young financial advisors. I try to schedule this stuff on Friday mornings when things are a little quieter for me. They DM me or email me and I just say yes. I have 15 minutes for any kid reading my stuff […]
How to avoid bear markets
Part I: Someone once asked me if there was a way to generally avoid bear markets and still be an investor. My answer was that there are different ways to do this, but they will work at different times and when they don’t work the results will be catastrophic. And nothing always works. But there […]